MAT 510 SM2I

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MAT 510 (SM)2I
Math Riddles
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By Cecilia Erinne

• I am prime with an even sum,
• My neighbors have factors
• More than two.
• On my left side is a dozen.
• In two weeks, Ill see my cousin.
• If you can, find me do!

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By Janice Stevens

• I am a whole number.
• When squared my result is one of
• my factors.
• I am the exponent
• but we are not the same.
• Who am I?

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By Terri Stamps

• I am a whole number between
• one and ten,
• Slapped together now and then.
• Sometimes high, sometimes low,
• and if your not quick, sometimes
• too slow!

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By Natasha Page

• 2, 4, 6, 8,
• Which will you appreciate?
• 3, 5, 7, 9,
• Three of these we know are
• prime.
• Pick a large one from each set,
• but hold on lets not forget!
• If you add them you will see,
• a composite I will be.
• But if you divide by 5,
• I will surely be prime.
• What number am I?

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By Tammi Weber

• I am a number a child longs to be,
• I make them feel a little free.
• I have 2 factors you can see.
• I am the sum of 10 and three.
• What number am I?

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By Linda Simmons

• 1. I am a power of 2,
• The exponent of volume is a clue!
• Single digit stand I tall,
• I form an M if I fall.
• 2. The sum of my digits odd will be
• Through 2 prime digits you will see
• 2 less than the su of the digits square
• Search to find with great care!

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By ???

• I am a number that is prime.
• I am the largest single prime.
• Now to figure this rhyme,
• Multiply me by one
• and you will be done!

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By Jessica Wand

• My daughters age is an even number
• Weve always wanted to visit the down under!
• Shes my reason for being alive,
• and her age is a multiple of five.
• Her age has four factors.
• She loves to ride on tractors!
• Shes not yet in her teens,
• but shes already my beauty queen!

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By Amy Riley

• Eight divided by two is four.
• The number Im thinking of is more!
• The quotient is increased by
• adding three squared,
• That sum could be some parents
• nightmare!

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By Linda Murray

• I am a three digit number.
• My tens digits is three more than
• My ones digit,
• My hundreds digit is 6 less than
• My tens digit.
• What number am I?

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By Janis Beal

• 2 4 6 8
• What number can football fans
• Appreciate?
• Take away 18 and add 2 more.
• You got it!
• The answer is _____?

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By ????

• The difference between 30 and
• me,
• Is the same as finding the sum of
• 18 and me.
• Who might I be?

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By Angela Weary

• I am made when two consecutive
• odd numbers subtract,
• But Im an even number that is
• used by many as a factor!

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By Kayla Johnson

• Six times six is this,
• Twelve times three is a new
• twist,
• But a square on my head and let
• me stay in bed
• Until the time you figure
• Four times nine!

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By ????

• The difference between two
• numbers is four less than their
• sum.
• One number is less than the
• other,
• What are the two numbers?

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By Bridgett Oakes

• Eight minus three is me,
• Multiply me times five and ya got
• a jive!
• That number is twenty-five.
• What number am I?

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By Vicky Fryou

• Two digit am I with a sum of 13,
• You square a little number to get
• Me you see,
• Dont look all around for numbers
• and me,
• There are only primes in my
• Family!

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By Vicky Fryou

• I am a fraction which is actually
• gross,
• With all its digit even.
• My denominator is the first prime
• Number,
• What number am I?

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By ???

• Drunken Jack
• Takes three steps forward
• And two steps back
• He must go onward
• To meet his friend Zack
• He awaits him northward
• Twenty straight back
• If one step forward
• Measures one back
• How many step does Jack henceforward
• Take back?

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By Sandi Parks

• I am an odd number greater
• Than 10,
• A perfect square root I am not,
• Double me and Im a multiple f 10.
• Less than fifty and youre hot!